Posted on 10/29/2021 11:54:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
A photo of Legendary Native American leader Sitting Bull taken in 1885. (Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution) Science has confirmed a man in South Dakota is the great-grandson of the iconic Native American leader Sitting Bull. DNA from the famous chieftain's hair matched that of Ernie LaPointe, who has long claimed this famous relation.
Sitting Bull, also known as Tatanka-Iyotanka, led the Lakota tribe of Sioux people in what is now South Dakota. He is most notable for being the military leader who famously defeated U.S. Lt. Col. George Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Sitting Bull then fled the country and eventually returned to join Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. But in 1890, government-led Indian police killed Sitting Bull while they were trying to arrest him, according to PBS.
The new finding reveals Sitting Bull's closest living relative is LaPointe, also a Lakota Sioux man. It is also the first time that ancient DNA has been used to confirm a familial relationship between living and historical individuals, according to the statement.
"We managed to locate sufficient amounts of autosomal DNA in Sitting Bull's hair sample, and compare it to the DNA sample from Ernie LaPointe and other Lakota Sioux," lead researcher Eske Willerslev, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Cambridge in England, said in a statement. "And [we] were delighted to find that it matched."
(Autosomal DNA refers to genetic material found on the 22 pairs of non-sex chromosomes.)
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Pretty cool!
Of course we all remember the last and immortal words of General George Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
“Where the HELL did all these F’n Indians come from”
DNA from hair. How many opportunities have been missed with BJ’s hair? You know-the black son. I don’t think they were missed. No truth.
Congratulations.
More information on WHY they wanted to arrest Sitting Bull (possible promoter of “The Ghost Dance” which was to help bring about an Indian messiah and free them from the white man).
Wiki: “The people turned to the Ghost Dance ritual, which frightened the supervising agents of the BIA. Those who had been residing in the area for a long time recognized that the ritual was often held shortly before battle was to occur.
Kicking Bear was forced to leave Standing Rock, but when the dances continued unabated, Agent James McLaughlin asked for more troops. He claimed the Hunkpapa spiritual leader Sitting Bull was the real leader of the movement.
A former agent, Valentine McGillycuddy, saw nothing extraordinary in the dances and ridiculed the panic that seemed to have overcome the agencies, saying: “The coming of the troops has frightened the Indians. If the Seventh-Day Adventists prepare the ascension robes for the Second Coming of the Savior, the United States Army is not put in motion to prevent them. Why should not the Indians have the same privilege? If the troops remain, trouble is sure to come.”
He was promised a pardon, but was killed by police-this sounds like an early version of what goes on in places like DC when some people voicing an opinion the powers-that-be don’t like won’t shut up...
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